I generally stay away from the my-desktop-is-flashy-so-what-if-it-eats-CPU crowd but I seem to have met my match. Day before yesterday I installed The Avant Window Manager. Currently I am running AWN on top of XFCE. I’ve removed the XFCE panel and now all I have is the AWN running at the bottom of my screen.
I absolutely [...]

I have been using XFCE for around a month. Yesterday I tried installing gnome-do. The installation was successful but on running gnome-do I kept getting an ‘Unable to open the session message bus.’ error on my terminal. Today, after installing Banshee I faced the same problem.
Googling did not help – possibly because XFCE users do [...]